Earlier today, I was working on a record called Love by Honey & The Bees. As I was going through the album and spot-checking the audio and documentation, I noticed that the last song listed for Side A was called “It’s Gonna Take A Miracle (Medley).” As soon as I read the title, I had …
Whenever we get a new hire in our department at work, we always ask them a few standard questions in the first team meeting we have with them. The question we always end with is, “Beatles or Stones?” In most cases, people tend to go with The Beatles, which tends to get a round of …
Looking back at my childhood, one thing I really appreciate now is the sense of responsibility that my parents instilled in me at an early age. This was mostly done through household chores. In the summer, my main responsibility was cutting the grass every week or two. In the winter, it was shoveling snow from …
Dr. John is another one of those artists that didn’t come to my attention until I started my current job. I got a chance to QC his first album early on in my career and, while it wasn’t anything that really blew me away, it interested me enough to make a mental note about him …
Living in Los Angeles for as long as I have, I decided to try and learn Spanish towards the end of 2019. I knew a few words here and there before this, but I really wanted to be able to hold a conversation with someone or at least have some basic understanding of what people …
While music has always been a big part of my life, movies have always held a special place as well, and it can be a real treat when both of these come together. Sometimes it’s a film’s score that stands out, sometimes it’s a soundtrack, but in both cases there have certainly been a number …
I met the first girlfriend I had in college through a buddy’s girlfriend toward the end of our freshman year. The girls wanted to meet up with my buddy and me at the State Theatre in Detroit and see a band called Lords Of Acid. I had no idea who Lords Of Acid were, but …
When I finally heard the name Rory Gallagher and gave his music a listen, I was shocked that I hadn’t heard of him much earlier. Style-wise, the music seemed like something that would have played well on any of the classic rock stations we had in Detroit, and, from reading about him, he seemed like …
My mom grew up playing the accordion as a little girl. I used to hear stories from her and my grandparents about them traveling all around so she could play in various competitions. By the time I was around, however, she had long given it up, so I’ve never actually seen her play. Despite this, …
Having lived the first 23 years of my life in Michigan, there’s a certain appreciation I have for the changing of the seasons. When you’re a kid, the winter can be a fun time filled with snowballs, sledding, building forts, sliding around on the ice, and you might even get a chance to miss a …